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number of known species is greatly increased owing to his 

 including many local varieties as distinct species. In speaking 

 of the great expense attending works on natural history, 

 the author claims that " in this work, this objection is 

 removed, since the figures, though drawn and coloured with 

 the greatest possible care, do not exceed one penny each.' 

 At the end of the volume he enuanerates seventy-two doubtful 

 species, of which eight species are still included in the British 

 lists, though only four of them are generally obtainable. 



Following AVood, it is to Henry Tibbatts Stainton, born 

 in 1822, that we owe the great stimulus given to Entomology 

 in the 19th century. Stainton was a man possessed of ample 

 means, and he devoted hianself to popularising his favourite 

 study. In 1S56 he originated the "EntoninJoyist'i' Intel/it/encer," 

 a penny weekly periodical, which he conducted for ten years, 

 at the same time bringing out a manual of British Butterflies 

 and Moths, a model of ingenuity for compressing into two 

 small 12110 volumes a full account of all that was then known 

 in the classification of our British Fauna. This work is still 

 largely used, and some workers even yet regret that a 

 re-issue is not made, bringing the information up to date 

 in the same style. His acumen for minute distinctions is un- 

 surpassed, and he is still a court of ajjpeal for deciding knotty 

 points. He also produced the yellow-backed " Entoiiwlogists' 

 Annual,'" which, besides supplying all the latest information 

 on the science, served as an Entomological Directory. An 

 obituary notice at the time of his death in 1892 graphically 

 describes the man. It says: — "He had essentially the mind 

 of a true scientist, industrious, exact, and scrupulous in 

 publishing nothing he was not prepared to support by the 

 strictest rules of evidence : it is most remarkable that scarcely 

 anything he ever wrote has been controverted. Dealing as 

 he did with no speculative views, he was singularly freed 

 from the necessity of dissipating his energies in mere wordy 

 contests." For many years he had monthly meetings at his 

 house, to which all workers in Entomological Science were 

 welcomed. 



